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KAREN QUINN TALKS RUNNING AND ADRIENNE ROWE TALKS HOCKEY · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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This is Kevin Sports for Daily here on one of five point nine Academy of
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m bringing you the folks on a hive sports show. On today's show we
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have reports on folks and in Victor, Hive Town, hawkinsch Town, Folks
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at Rugby Club, folks are Optimus Hockey Club, wheelchair basketball, rowing and
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running. Also on the show would be joined in the first hour by Karen
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Quinn from the South Kent Harriers, who'd be telling us all about her account
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to five k beginner's ten week course and how it went as it finished last
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Saturday when the all the runners went up the park run on the leaves.
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In the second hour, I shall be joined by Adrianne Rowe, who is
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the coach for the Folks the Optimist Boys on the fourteen side ahead of their
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semi final match at home against Winchester in a national competition. So make yourself
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comfortable, get the two and the scones out, stay where you are for
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two hours of local sport and classic tracks as we start the show with a
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bit of music from the Police and then we'll have some other local music.
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Academy the Folkston and hythe Squads podcast Every local sport across the district yes dayDay
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local music there from Coco and the Butterfields and a song called Autumn. That's
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funny. My my granddaughter's name is Autumn. And I will say this,
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but there will be an autumn another Autumn. That well, we'll be mentioning
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later on in the show. In the meantime, we're joined now by South
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Kent Harry a coach Karen Quinn. Hello, Karen, how are you very
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well? Thank you? Thanks for having me. Yeah, excellent, now
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thanks for coming in now, Karen, welcome to the show and tell us
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a bit about yourself and how you got into running. Was you're running background?
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And I mean you're a coach now, how did you get into coaching?
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Well? I wasn't a particularly active youngster. I did a tiny bit
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of running at school, but I fell into running by mistake really about ten
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years ago. I had young children and a friend of mine who we did
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the Score run together every day, suggested one day that she wanted to go
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running, and that it would be easier if she had somebody to tag along
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and we could keep each other going. I just took to it instantly.
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Within about ten weeks, I was thinking about how I could train for a
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ten k that very quickly led onto a ten miler, then a half marathon,
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and then a marathon. It all came very quickly. Really really,
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that's good for you, then't Yeah, that transition from sort of zero to
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marathon. How long was that you? Probably a year to eighteen months,
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I would say, yeah. Yeah. However, following that came the classics,
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two or three years of cycles of injury. I see, because I
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had done what a lot of us often do is get the bug and we
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just go too much too soon. Yeah yeah, yeah, but it's hard
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to it's hard to hold your reins in if you're enthusiastic, isn't it absolutely?
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And it's hard to know where that level is when you're starting out.
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Yeah yeah. I mean runners are probably their own worst enemy. You know,
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they get an injury, they go training, they know it's niggling,
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but they still going for a race, doesn't they because that's what the training
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plan says? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, right, Okay, so you
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got up. What was your first marathon? Then? Brighton? So my
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first marathon was the Brighton Marathon, and to this day, I think I
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would still describe it as my favorite marathon. Yeah, I absolutely loved it.
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I've run it, I've supported at Brighton, I've worked at the Brighton
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Marathon, and I would recommend anybody to give it a shot. Right.
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So, how many a marathons have you done? All? In all?
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The eleven? Ten eleven? I think some have been what you would describe
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as a race where I've trained consistently and been very focused on a finished time.
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Others have been done as much more social, fun and yeah, enjoyable.
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Yeah, okay, now I can remember seeing you at beachy Head,
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right, so that is more? Was that more than an a marathon that
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day? No? No, no, no, it wasn't one of the
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ultras. No, no, that was the marathon. Yeah, so I'm
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a regular at beachy Head Marathon. The first year I entered it, I
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was very very anxious about the elevation. Let's be real, ken, it's
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the elevation. The distance we've mastered. The elevation of beachy Head is something
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completely different. And I picked up an injury. So I managed to transfer
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down from the twenty six down to the ten kops from which they held,
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and I thought this will be a nice introduction because I can test it out
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and decide if I'm gutted that I couldn't do it, or whether or not
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I dodged a bullet. And I've been back every year since to do the
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twenty six milevee twenty six. Yeah, I've done the ten k. I've
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done it twice and well both times. Really the incentive was to run for
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a charity and I was getting on at the latter stages of my running career
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and then COVID came along and I couldn't do it anymore. And through COVID,
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I kind of, I don't know, I fell out of running,
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but it kind of caught up with me, you know. I was probably,
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like a lot of runners, bit inactive and the injuries were a bit
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telling. But the two beachy Head experiences really really stick with me, you
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know. And it was a fantastic though fantastic course. But the start runners,
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if ever you've done the start, you go straight up that he'll,
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don't you, Karen? Well, the first year I went to do it,
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I arrived the day before and like you say, the start is iconic.
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There's a photograph that anyone who's entering is presented with straight away. So
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I arrived the night before and thought I need to just have a little jog
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upt the start, see if I'm going to manage it. Had a nice
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gentle trot up to the top, So yeah, I'm definitely going to run
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it tomorrow, definitely. Off I went when the gun went, and I
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realized very quickly what I thought was the top was I'd barely even begun.
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I know, there's a little flat spelt and there were you just turned right
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into the trees, and I thought, oh, this is it. I've
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cracked it. Absolutely yeah. I mean as you come running towards the edge
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of the and you see the old lighthouse there, and if you get a
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brilliant day up there, they're lucky down there. I know some of the
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clubs down there on my Facebook page. They're always running across the downs.
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It's beautiful. It is very, very beautiful. So how did you get
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into South Ken? Harry is in? I a bit like you, having
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been running a long time. Once the routine goes, COVID came. My
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routine and consistency of running had taken a bit of a battering. The winter
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nights were starting to draw in and I was just noticing I wasn't getting my
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weekly mileage in the way I used to. I didn't seem to have the
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drive to get out the door as much as I used to, So I
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thought, do you know, I'm just going to give it a go.
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I'd never been convinced clubs were for me, but I'm just going to sign
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up. I'm going to turn up for six weeks and if it's not for
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me, at least i've tried. Yeah. Yeah, I've never looked back.
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They are such a great, great bunch. Yeah yeah, okay,
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excellent. And did you when you first went there, did anybody sort of
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take you under their wing and say, well, lot, come out with
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me. You know? So it's very so within the club itself there are
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three separate groups that that train, but even separately to the club groups,
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little friendships and subgroups are then formed based on who's training for what, whose
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goals are where, where everybody's fitness levels are. And it's just such a
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good community. You're always to find somebody. Oh that's excellent, right,
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So now did you have I've got this right. You have done a couple
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of ultras, have you. I've done some long distance hike with distances which
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go beyond the marathon, and I have done anyone who's run a marathon,
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Who's watch tells them they've done more than the twenty six point two. I'm
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going to claim the Ultras, but no, I haven't run an official Ultra.
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No, I haven't quite transgressed to that level of crazy yet. Whether
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or not it comes, we'll see. Yeah, yeah, good right.
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Okay, we're going to take a little break now, but we're going to
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come back because the reason you're here is to tell us about the Couch to
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five K Beginner's Course, how it all started and how it all ended last
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week on the lease. So let's sit back and listen to a bit of
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soft cell and tainted love. Soft cell there. Okay, now we're back
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in the studio with Karen. Now, the idea of bringing Karen in today.
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Over the years we've had several South Harriers in and it's lovely to have
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them in speaking and telling us about the club and the training achievements. But
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today is all about the accounch to five K Beginner's Course. So, Karen,
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was this your idea? Guilty as charge? Yes, it was,
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yeah, okay, So how did you did you have to approach the club
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and say, look, I've got this idea. I want to recruit some
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people. What do you think exactly that? So I took the suggestion to
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the committee at the end of last year. Everybody seemed to think it was
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a great idea. I did say at the time that it would take more
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than one person to facilitate support and be able to run it successfully, and
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I was happy to go forth if I had the support of other members and
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the club. The members have been fantastic, so we put together a Facebook
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post. The whole thing came about with a Facebook post to see how much
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interest there was, and that was just the beginning to the middle of December.
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We put word out with a view to start the course on the seventh
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of January, and the interest was phenomenal. It yeah, really really big,
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at which point we didn't know how many might turn up on that first
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morning, if anybody would turn up on that first morning, so we had
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nothing to worry about. I mean, we've averaged on a Sunday morning twenty
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people, made up of helpers, volunteers and newbies. Some of the newbies
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have been every week, so when we started in January, some of the
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newbies had never run a step before, some had run many many years ago,
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some had run a little bit recently, but they just wanted a bit
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more structure and a bit more routine. We also had a few of our
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club members that had fallen out of their routine and wanted to use the sessions
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as an additional coach session in the week as a way to get quicker,
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as a way to manage pace judgment more carefully. So it was a really
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really varied group. So tell me what happened that very first week. What
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did you say, welcome right off we go? Absolutely So the first week,
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I woke up in the morning, opened the curtains and it was the
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wettest, windy race morning and we thought, oh, I don't know how
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many people are going to brave it. And we all met down at the
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Rowing Club, which is our usual meeting place, and we did the first
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training session, which was a five minute walk and then eight one minute run
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followed by one minute walks and a five minute walk, all done up at
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the Embrooke car Park. It was a really useful space to use because everybody
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could work out their own pace and ability and we could still monitor everybody's rather
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than go right along the prominence within one nice neap space, so we did
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every Sunday morning for eight weeks of the ten weeks, and then for week
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nine we took them up to the lees, at which point they were working
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towards running for twenty five minutes, NonStop, continuous running. And it also
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meant they had the introduction to the lees as their graduation run in week ten
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was in fact going to be focusing on. All right. I bet that
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stepped from the car park to the lees was a bit we've all been lose.
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Everyone's been at the lease for a walk on a lovely Sunda day,
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but when you think, oh dear, I've got a run on this,
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yeah, and five k suddenly looks really long and really far. Yeah yeah,
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Okay, So your group, you've told us how it was made up,
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but I'm interested to know like that, the range of ages and was
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it male or female base. So we had a really nice mix of both,
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more females than males, but we did have a couple of gents.
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We had. Of the people that showed interest initially, some of them when
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they'd made contact with us, it was apparent they didn't need to join the
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beginner's group. They were already established enough to come straight into the main club.
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So we did get a couple of direct memberships from them, and we
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had sixteen newbies, completely fresh newbies. Of the sixteen, we lost four
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along the way. We said to everybody, come along, just come along
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and try. If it's not for you, there's no obligation to come again.
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A couple, unfortunately it had picked up injuries or were dealing with health
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issues, which meant they couldn't continue. Of the sixteen, we had eleven
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graduates on Saturday, and of those eleven, seven or eight of them are
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hoping to then now join us. Oh it's excellently Yeah. And on the
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actual day of lost Saturday, did everybody do their own thing or did you
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kind of stick together in a group? Everybody did their own thing. And
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what was really really lovely is as the weeks have gone on that even the
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club members that haven't necessarily been directly involved in this beginner's group, they've all
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been doing their long runs on a Sunday morning down at the club and everybody
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congregates at the end, and everybody's been asking how everyone's getting on. So
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when we all arrived on Saturday morning at part run, some of our really
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strong established runners at the end of their run automatically went back onto the course
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and they helped some of the beginners finish. I don't know if you were
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there on Saturday, but I started at the start. I never actually got
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beyond the bandstand because I just did the top bit up and down, up
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and down to make sure they were all happy, safe and finishing with smiles.
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And what was the feeling like? You obviously all got together, there
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was pictures and stuff like that. I mean, were they really really buzzing?
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Did they think that's absolutely delighted? I mean some of them really really
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had had no belief in themselves at the beginning that this was going to be
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something they would actually be able to achieve, And we just kept reminding that
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it wasn't anything we'd done. It was their consistency, their regular turning up,
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and they had to do whatever we did with them. On a Sunday
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morning. They were asked to complete the same session twice more before coming back
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the following week, and all of them were so good at doing those homework
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runs. Yeah so good. Yeah, that's so good. And so you've
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got a couple of new members hopefully, and have anybody shown any sort of
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ambitions to perhaps through the ten k. Absolutely absolutely so. Of the original
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newbie group, some of them had no intention of progressing any further than that
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five k, but they've left us with the skills and the knowledge that they
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can. They've chosen to do something they've never done before and they've absolutely nailed
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it. Others have done longer distances in the past but had lost all confidence
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in themselves and are now in a place where they feel that they're ready to
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tackle them again. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome news, Karen. I
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mean that buzz when they crossed the line. It must have been was you
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there and they all cross the line? Yeah? It wasn't just it was
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such a huge team event. We had all the coaches had come, all
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the athletes, all the newbies, everybody had finished their run. There was
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a huge sea of orange and white on the leaves on Saturday morning. Excellent.
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So while we're on AA here and we're talking about this, what would
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you say to somebody that's listening to this interview about coming along? Do you
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think you'll do another course? I mean, it was definitely successful. It
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was a really positive experiment that we did, and it's brought all of the
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club closer together as well, because as well as me and the coaches and
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the helpers, we had some helpers coming every week to make the teas and
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coffees at the end of the run. One lady from the club came every
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week, so two of our new bees had some childcare providers. Some one
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of our runners would run with us every week to take all the pictures.
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Some of the established runners would be there to offer advice and generally have a
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chat. We really wanted to showcase the community that South Kent Harriers is.
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Yeah. Good, So what would you say, as I was trying to
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say, what would you say to somebody that's listening to this now and really
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just thinking, do you know what listens to this? I could do that?
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What would you say to that You absolutely could do that. Anybody could
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do it. I would say to anybody just try give yourself ten to twelve
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weeks and give it a go. Honestly, anybody can get there. Okay,
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now it's been great Evan, you're on Karen, but it sounds like
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you couldn't have done this on your own. You've had the back end of
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the club. Is there any thank yous or anybody you want to mention there
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are so many people. I wouldn't want to upset anybody by missing anybody out.
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But I had a regular team of between eight and ten members every single
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week supporting me, helping me, keeping everybody on track. And it also
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meant that most weeks, whether it be up in the car park or on
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the lees, the runners actually had one to one support of the newers,
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the newer runners that wanted that support, and some people needed more support than
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others, and it meant that we could offer it, which was just lovely
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to offer something so inclusive. Okay, So if for someone out there now
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driving around and listening in the car or listening to Alexa at home, how
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can people make contact with you? You can find us either on Facebook.
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The South Kent Harris have got a website. There's a contact us button on
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there. Come and see us. We're always down at their own club on
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a Tuesday and a Thursday. We meet at six o'clock ready to run at
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six fifteen. And like I said, there are three groups that operate,
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so regardless of where you're at at the moment, there'll be a space for
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you and there will be an environment for you to encourage everybody else you'll be
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part of a team and we can see improvements week on week. Karen,
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thank you so much for coming in and listeners out there, if you ever
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thought yourself, I can do this. Some people have gone on from park
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Run to to do marathons. It's like Karen did in the early days,
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gone from zero. As long as you don't do it too quickly, so
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please please come along. Karen, thank you so much for coming in,
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and well done to everybody out there. I hope you're going to listen to
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this little podcast. All those that did that five k on Saturday, well
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done to you. Okay, time for a bit of music and we have
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got the Pretenders and this is a good one, don't get me wrong.
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Don't get me wrong. There from the Pretenders, and that's one for all
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the newbies who did the couch to five k and you can save yourself.
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Don't get me wrong. I've done it. I've done five k and you
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can move on. And we want to see you regularly up at the park
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Run. I want to see you changing color T shirts because you get a
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T shirt every time you hit a milestone. All right, time for some
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football news now, folks, and in Victoria to dig in for their three
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points on Saturday when they beat Kingstonian three to two. The first goal of
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the game came in the sixteenth minute when Eddie also putting, Victor won nil
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up. Kingstonian scored just four minutes into the second half and once again in
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the fifty third minute to go two on ahead. Sato so and Ogo and
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Dave Smith added one each for Invictor and the final score was a win for
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Invictor three goals to two. The Saturday they played Kenvy Island at home a
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Charon Road kickoff at three o'clock. Now hive jown Hive Joan had a bad
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day at the office when they welcomed Horndean to Reachfields and so but we're going
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to listen to our men on the spot there, Tom Millerby, and he's
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going to tell us his report. It was a dreadful afternoon at Reachfields on
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Saturday as hiver Thrush four nil by Horndean. Returning manager Steve Watt made two
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changes from the two on victory Atway at Herne Bay last Saturday, as Caine
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Philip and Brad Schaeffer replaced Kai Garrand and the injured Ethan Smith. The game
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got off to the worst possible start as a ball in from the right by
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Freddy Chester was tipped away by Jack West's Duty, with Conduffin meeting it with
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a diving head on the rebound, which flew into an empty net. It
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wasn't long until Hounding scored their second on twelve minutes as Chester once again sent
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a ball in, this time from a tricky angle in the box on the
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left, which was slammed home by Zach Willetts. The visitors made it three
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in injury time, thanks once again to Zach Willett, who found himself with
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all the space in the world on the right hand side on the counter attack,
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sending the ball goalwards. Jack Quest's Duty appeared to have made contact with
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the ball but was unable to keep it out, meaning it was three nil
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at the break. Nothing seemed to have changed in the second half, and
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Hounding were able to score their fourth seventeen minutes in as a high defense switched
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off, allowing Zach Willett to score his hat trick. The result marked Hyde's
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heaviest home defeat of the season. After Tuesday night's match against Beckingham Town was
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called off, Hi fans will be looking for the team to bounce back on
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Saturday as they host Three Bridges at Reachfield's kickoffs at three pm. We heard
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just before dire straight Sir Tom Illerby was turning us about Hive who sadly went
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down four nil and the next game, as he said, is on Saturday
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against Three Bridges. Now, staying with football, Hawkins Town had a decent
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two one away win against Bexley on Saturday, keeping them on second spot.
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Goals coming from Luke Reeve and Sam Grant. Man of the match was split
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them. It's a bit unusual for them to split it, but I'll tell
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you why they did it. They split the man of the match award between
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Tyler Clements and the keeper Sam Grant. Now, Sam not only made some
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crucial saves, but he actually scored from the eighty yard free kick and it
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was cool on camera. So please please visit Hawkins Town FC facebook page and
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you will see Sam score in his awesome guy. Well done Sam. This
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Saturday the Hawks are away to Minster and that'll be at Ramsgates Ground. Now,
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commiserations go to deal Town as they bowed out of the FA VARs quarterfinals
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away at Lincoln United. The game ended one all and went to penalties,
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Lincoln winning the shoe out by four penalties to three. Now it's a classic
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thing to say, I know, but Deal can now concentrate on the league
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where they have seven games in hand after their cup runs. And that's seven
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games in hand over lead Glebe who are eight points ahead, so it's a
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chance they could catch up. So they're running in a rich reign of form
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at the moment. But will want to say thank you to Deal and for
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making the football in Kent so interesting as in recent weeks we've said about Maidstone.
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Maystone had a great run in the FA Cup. Deal had a great
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run in the FA Bars. So it seems like that that keeps the interest
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in k Kent football alive. A time for a bit of Queen Somebody to
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Love Academy FM, Folcus him function. That was Queen There Somebody to Love.
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Okay, you know we really got to crack on a bit because that
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old Karen's are right old chatterbox. You know she never couldn't I really had
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a job shower up. So that's what we love. People come through that
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door and they're so passionate about what they do so if we overrun, we
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don't care. So news from the Folks and Rugby Club Now. The first
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fifteen didn't have a game on Saturday and their next fixture is on the sixteenth.
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It's a tougher way game to top of the table. Seven Oaks the
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first team are currently fourth. The second fifteen well, I'm not sure quite
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what happened there last week, but they had to concede the game to East
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Peckham and Paddockwood. Let's hope for better things this week as they travel away
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to Snowden. The thirteen lost thirty five nineteen a way to deal Betsanger and
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on the sixteenth they also faced the top of the table team in Gravesend.
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They're playing them at home. The Thirds are currently eighth out of ten teams.
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Now the sixth Nations rugby? Did you watch? That? Is so
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exciting this year? It didn't disappoint once again. The match starting the weekend
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sa Italy take the first win in eleven years at the Stadio Olimpicole where they
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beat Scotland by thirty one points to twenty nine. The second game saw England
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beat Ireland by the slimmest of margins to win the game twenty three points to
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twenty two thanks to a dramatic drop kick goal scored by Marcus Smith in the
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eightieth minute, denying Ireland a Grand Slam. Now, grand slam is when
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one team. There's the six nations. If one team beats all five of
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them, that is a Grand Slam. But that finish reminded me. I'll
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bet it took a few of you back to two thousand and three when Johnny
25:18
Wilkinson did exactly the same in the eightieth minute of the game and they beat
25:22
Australia to win the World Cup. Right. So now France beat Wales by
25:29
forty five points to twenty four in front of their home fans. This week
25:33
sees the final nail biting games. Wales played Italy in the fight to stave
25:37
off the Wooden Spoon. This one can be seen on BBC at two point
25:41
fifteen, Island played Scotland, shown on ITV at four forty five, and
25:45
England played France in Lyon for the final game of the series, shown at
25:49
eight pm also on ITV. Rugby lovers, this is definitely a day for
25:55
you in front of that Telly, okay, So we're going to move on
26:00
wheelchair basketball. Now I've got some updates the Arrows now they didn't ever.
26:03
They don't have a game until March the twenty third, when they're away to
26:07
Herod Heat, which means a trip to Cumberton Village College near Cambridge. The
26:12
other two fixtures to end the season are on the sixth of April at home
26:15
to Cardiff met Archers. Then the last game is away to the same team.
26:21
Now, I've been studying the league table and the Arrows are currently top
26:25
with sixteen points, level with Thames Valley Kings, but the Kings only have
26:29
one game left to play. A big danger comes from the Southern Sharks,
26:33
who've played the same amount of games as the Arrows and are only one point
26:36
behind one point behind. But the biggest danger of all comes from the team
26:41
that Arrows have to play twice in succession, the Cardiff met Archers. They've
26:45
only played seven games and they are on fourteen points, just two points behind
26:49
the Arrows. So these two games against Cardiff are going to be absolutely crucial
26:53
as the end of the season closes in right time for a bit of a
26:59
rowing news mentioned now for Billy and Sam from the Folks and Rowing Club.
27:03
When they came back from Southampton. Their visit paid off as they won the
27:07
British Transport Commission that's the BCC Springhead Race, choosing a double skull as they
27:14
normally race in a pair or four. So well done to Billy and Sam,
27:18
and thank you to Sally Watkins for that information. Okay, we're getting
27:22
near the end now, so we're just going to bang on a tune and
27:23
see what comes up. That's from nineteen eighty four. Okay, right,
27:37
We're going to play just a little bit of a song now because we are
27:40
overrunning a little bit. But I love it. It's just like just trying
27:42
to squeeze everything in. So I'll be back with you after the news and
27:45
we'll be chatting with Adrian. I hope I've got that right, No,
27:51
Adrian, I don't know. I'll ask you next time. This is Kevin'
28:07
Sports Very Daily, back for the second hour of the Folks on the High
28:10
Sports Show. Where did that first hour go? A fly by coming up
28:19
in the sound. We've got another special guest. Then, we've got Adrian
28:26
from the Folks on Oximus Hockey Club. So she's going to be telling us
28:30
about her team. She's coached for the under fourteens. They got a massive
28:33
game of the weekend, so then we will do all the hockey reports.
28:40
We've got a running report and I won't be doing anything about Heartbeat this week.
28:47
I'll give you a break. But what I'm going to do tell you
28:49
a couple of stories from the Royal Hospital fictional hospital set in the sixties,
28:55
so we'd be playing some sixties music of coming up. First of all,
29:02
this hour of the show, we've got the average white band pick up the
29:03
pieces and some local music and then we will be back and then a local
29:25
music there Jermaine Riley and a song called Smallville. Okay, Now we joined
29:29
in the studio for the second hour by Adrien Rowe. Hello Adrian, how
29:33
are you? Yeah? Good? Thank you good. Thanks for coming in
29:34
because it's a really exciting time, the exciting weekend for you. Now you're
29:38
the coach of the boys Ops under fourteens and we're going to come on to
29:42
them a bit later. But tell us a little bit about yourself. How
29:48
you got into hockey. You've been playing hockey a long time, yes,
29:49
so I've been a member of the club since the late nineties. I joined
29:56
I was a family full of cricketers and footballers and decided that I want to
30:00
do something for myself. So a friend introduced me to hockey club and I've
30:03
been there ever since. Oh well, yes, so was that the rebel
30:07
when you come in there, just think possibly it was a good social place
30:11
to be when you're a teen. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was
30:14
great. That was back in the days of the old Cricket club and the
30:18
grass pitchers. Yeah. The only time those pitches looked any good was for
30:22
the Hockey Festival at Easter. Yeah. The rest of the time rubbish.
30:25
But everybody, We've said this before. The game has changed now. Everybody
30:29
plays on artificial pitch, don't they. Wherever you go away game. Some
30:33
have got better facilities than other, but the stadiums are, if you like,
30:37
all artificial pitches. So you know what you're going to get. Okay,
30:41
So tell us So you went down the hockey club. Well what happened
30:44
then? So I've played mainly Ladies toos. I've been captaining the Ladies twos
30:48
for the last seven years. Last year we got promotion South East Division one.
30:52
We're playing in It's been a pretty tough season this season. Having stepped
30:56
up this year. But yeah, it is where I've grown up. Really.
30:59
Yeah. So you still play on a Saturday and you coach on Sunday.
31:02
Yeah, so yeah, plan on st say, coach on a Sunday
31:03
and Monday, train on a Wednesday. Ah right, So do when you
31:07
say train, do you train yourself for the boys? Yeah? Both,
31:11
So train with the ladies squad on a Wednesday evening and then the boys train
31:14
on a Monday night, which shy coach. Okay, So I mean since
31:18
the Three Heels has developed and it's taken, if you like, a bit
31:22
of a half a generation or so, but now you're really churning out a
31:25
good production of hockey players, aren't you. I do think that the juniors
31:27
that are coming through now are the first generation to benefit from Three Hills.
31:32
You know, it's been there all their life. Yeah, and it's just
31:34
the facilities are incredible. We go to lots of other grounds. Some teams
31:38
are still playing at schools, no clubhouse, no changing rooms, and then
31:42
you come to Three Hills. We forget how lucky we are. Yeah.
31:45
Yeah right, And it's back to back, isn't it. On a Saturday,
31:48
you can go down there. I love going down there on a Saturday
31:51
and they put the board out where there's all the scores are, and they're
31:53
coming in from the other games, and it's like back in the day you
31:56
used to do the football pools and you think, oh it's six seven was
32:00
oh, no, four team, I've got a draw. So making a
32:07
switch from playing to coaching, well you're still doing both, but was it
32:13
a big step? Did you think that you know, you might not be
32:15
able to handle that are the weekends? Yes? I did think when I
32:17
started the coaching, so that was about four years ago, I wasn't sure
32:22
whether both were compatible. However, it does work out quite nicely because all
32:25
junior hockey is on the Sunday. Yeah, senior hockey's on a Saturday.
32:29
You know, coaching different days, so it fits in at the moment.
32:31
Okay, so the fourteens, the under fourteens on their league fixtures, do
32:37
you travel far? Is it just in ken It's not. We go as
32:39
far as Surrey, so we've been. I think Oxted is offer this year
32:44
this year about an hour and a half. Yeah. Yeah, And do
32:46
you get any feedback from other clubs and teams when they come to the three
32:51
heels they say, oh, wish we had one of these. Yes,
32:52
well we absolutely do. Same in senior hockey as well. People come to
32:57
us and recognize that we have it very good. Yeah, Now, just
33:02
how big is junior hockey in folks? To them, let's say how many?
33:07
How many teams have you got? So we've got a team at every
33:09
age group from under eight to under eighteen, and on a Saturday morning we
33:14
have some four, four and five year old training in the cage, starting
33:16
them very young. It's grown hugely since I was a junior. You know,
33:22
when I was a junior, it was just an under eighteen's team and
33:23
that was about it. Really. Yeah, and so now we've progressed onto
33:27
you know, and some under twelve boys. You're talking three teams that we're
33:30
entering into competitions on a monthly basis. Yes, really has grown hugely.
33:36
Last weekend I went down to watch to be honest, so I went down
33:38
to watch the under eighteens football on the very far pitch and I turned around
33:44
and I saw hoardes and hoards of people. So I went over and I
33:46
spoke to Jenet Fuller. I said, what's going on? She said,
33:50
well, it's the Kent under Ten's. In the morning it was the boys
33:53
and in the afternoon no, So in the morning it was the girls and
33:57
in the afternoon it was the boys. Mis Wu said to me, she
34:01
said, I'm just popping up to Morrison's and it was just on the change
34:05
over between the boys and the girl she was gone out. She couldn't get
34:07
anywhere of their chair in High Street was absolutely packed. Anyway, it was
34:12
so good to see these teams from all over Kent just enjoying. Thirty four
34:16
teams in total that came to the club on the day from nine o'clock until
34:21
you know, sundown. Really and it is only because that the Three Hills
34:24
is there. They can handle that facility, isn't it. There's not many
34:29
clubs that so, Like you say, the teams do come from all over
34:31
Kent, but there's not many of us that can hold, you know,
34:34
competitions like that. Yeah. And Janet Fuller is doing a great job and
34:38
she's still playing. Is scoring goals, yes, yeah, a little birdie
34:43
told me that she might be one of the top goal scorers at the end
34:45
of the season. Sitting on top of yeah, yeah, that's good.
34:50
Now we've we've said about coaching is coaching fourteen year olds a tough job sometimes?
35:00
Especially boys? You know, yes, sometimes. I've had them for
35:02
four years and it was definitely harder a couple of years ago than it is
35:07
now. Really. Yeah, they've I don't know whether it's just growing up
35:12
in life or whether we've got used to each other and we're rubbing along a
35:15
little better. But yes, you know, it's not always easy, as
35:19
with anything. But as a rule they're pretty good. Yeah, that's excellent.
35:22
Well they're not too bad on the pitch either, which we're going to
35:25
talk about in the second half. Now, I think is there a I
35:32
don't know this, but is there an under fourteen sort of Kent representative side?
35:37
Yes, so Kent the county sides go start under thirteen's actually and right
35:42
the way up to under eighteens. We've got seven lads from our squad,
35:46
two in the under fourteens and five in the under thirteens that made it through
35:51
to county this year, which is excellent. Yeah, it just shows that
35:53
it's all coming together. Right, we're going to have a little break now,
35:55
are we going to play a bit of music? Oh, this is
35:58
a great one of them, This one for a long time, but we're
36:00
going to come back because there is a massive, massive game at the Three
36:04
Hills and Adrian is going to tell us all about it from nineteen seventy one
36:25
the ccs and Tap turns on the water. Okay, we're back in a
36:31
studio now and we join once again by Adrian and Adrian there's a massive massive
36:37
game coming up on Sunday at Three Hills, tell us about it. There
36:40
is. So when we enter into the League and Cup with England Hockey,
36:46
you enter into a tier. The lads are in Tier two and Tier four
36:52
and we also enter into a national Cup competition. So the competition starts locally.
36:58
You play against you know, local size. We played Cansburry and nol
37:01
Park and as you go further along in the in the competition, you go
37:06
a bit further Afield, Winchester, Sorry, Wimbledon we've been to. Yeah.
37:09
So we are in the semi finals, semi finals and you've got a
37:15
lovely lovely homes raw as well, haven't you. We had very lucky homes
37:17
quarterfinal and semi final. Yeah. Because last week on the program, I
37:22
think it was that I looked at a Google map out and found out where
37:25
the other teams were and the furthest that you might have had to travel was
37:30
Manchester, wasn't it. It was? Yeah, that'd have been a bigger
37:31
way game. Yeah yeah, I mean it would have been a great experience
37:35
for the boys. But I mean from an administration point for Three Hills and
37:37
that it's it's nice to be on home territory and obviously an advantage. Now.
37:44
Now have the boys been training this week? They have, We train
37:46
every Monday. We've really been putting a focus on the cup games without putting
37:52
on too much pressure. Lots of gameplay in training. We're so fortunate to
37:57
have lots of people that have got expert knowledge that have come down to help
38:00
us out. We've got hockey playing parents who have played, you know,
38:04
very high suandard of hockey. We've got old club members that play played national
38:07
league, all been helping us out. So it's fantastic. Yeah, and
38:10
I bet it's really put I don't know, it's almost put the club back
38:15
on the map, really, hasn't it. It has? Yeah, Yeah,
38:16
especially in hockey circles folks, and always feels a little bit on the
38:20
edge, I think because we're surrounded by the sea. Yes, and never
38:22
sort of seen as one of the big clubs. But it's really great to
38:24
put our name out there in the national competition. Oh brilliant. Yeah,
38:28
So let's get back to basics for people that don't know hockey. How many
38:31
in a team? Eleven on the bitch and how many in your squad?
38:36
We've got fifteen? Fifteen? And are you loud if a player comes off,
38:40
can he go back on again? Yes? Rolling subs? Yeah yeah.
38:45
And the one thing I did learn actually when I was chatting with Brian
38:47
Murrell watching the game your it would have been your quarter final, was that
38:52
in actual fact, the game is played in four quarters of fifteen minutes,
38:57
isn't it? Yes? It is actually that can it can be whole?
39:00
That it's normally agreed beforehands. So the England Hockey guidance actually is to play
39:05
halves at this age group. The coach from the other team and I agreed
39:08
on this occasion to play quarters. Okay, so what will happen on Sunday?
39:14
Will you have a chat between you again behlves? Yeah? Yeah,
39:19
this weekend? Yeah yeah, So does it actually make any difference? Players
39:24
sort of cool down and then take a bit of time to get going again.
39:28
Yeah, it really depends on the circumstances of the game, because actually
39:30
sometimes it's a good opportunity to get them together and have a chat about something
39:34
that you want to change if you're playing quarters, whereas a half is a
39:37
long time. Yeah, and changing something while they're trying to play is not
39:40
that easy, right. I mean, when I watched the quarter, it
39:46
was good. You're bo got there in time because I think the first goal
39:49
went in with about thirty seconds it is. Yeah, you couldn't think of
39:52
a better way to start a game, to be honest. Ye, I
39:54
don't think the other team had to touch the ball before it when you're right,
39:58
but they did pull the couple back. It was a really exciting game.
40:01
Now, what was I going to say? I noticed I don't know
40:07
much about hockey, but I noticed that some of your players that were playing
40:10
that Sunday they looked like they had a bit more experience. And I talking
40:16
to Brian, he said, oh, it was a couple of those played
40:20
in the seventeen with us yesterday. So that must make a big difference,
40:23
wasn't it. It definitely does. So when the lads turn thirteen, they're
40:29
able to play in adult hockey. So the ones that are in the older
40:32
age group of the under fourteens this year have been exposed at adult hockey.
40:36
It makes such a huge difference, really changes the way they play their game.
40:39
Yeah. Yeah, Because Brian was telling me that the day before the
40:43
quarters, the goalie, your goalie, who didn't have much to do really
40:47
on the Sunday, he was flying about all over the place. On the
40:50
second he was I believe he got that game. Yeah, absolutely. Oh
40:53
so that's that's really good. And I could see from being if you like
40:58
uneducated hockey, expect that some of them definitely had a bit of an older
41:01
hockey head on them, don't they. Yeah, right now the opposition,
41:07
I don't suppose you know much about them apart from going on their website and
41:10
having a little look. Yeah, I suppose. That's a good thing about
41:14
these national competitions is that you actually don't know, but it's all very unknown.
41:17
I think they're a similar size club to ours. Their lads play in
41:22
a league, the same you know, similar to what you know, similar
41:24
to us. It will just be what comes up on the day. Yeah,
41:27
that's right, And no doubt if they've got the same structure, which
41:30
I think they have. They've got four ladies teams and seven men's teams.
41:34
No doubt some of their juniors have got senior heads on as well. Yeah
41:37
yeah, okay, So I don't want you to name anybody, but do
41:43
you think you've got any like budding players coming through in your team? Yeah?
41:46
They really do play exceptionally well as a squad or fifteen, but there
41:52
are I think at this age it's hard to tell because of them developing at
41:55
different times. You know who is going to become a star. Yeah,
41:59
but yeah, there are absolutely some, you know, excellent hockey players in
42:02
there. Yeah. And do you find if you've got a pick eleven,
42:07
is it on a bit of a round robbin system or you do kick off
42:10
with your eleven best players? So in the league we do a bit of
42:15
round robin, you know, depending on the game circumstance, depending who we're
42:16
playing against in the cup, particularly these last three or four games, we
42:22
start with our best eleven. Yeah, yeah, okay and the subs if
42:27
you like, except that if it's a very close game and a very tight
42:30
game, they might not get on. They do. I've not known maturity
42:34
from lads that are just thirteen like it. You know, they completely understand.
42:37
They're all about the squad and the team and you know, the result,
42:40
the process rather than themselves. It's fantastic. Yeah, that's great game,
42:45
gamemanship, discipline anyway, and it should be like that in any sports.
42:50
And at thirteen, that's a very mature way to look at sports.
42:52
I think it's not about me, it's about the team. Yeah, And
42:55
do you think it's really sunk in or I mean thirteen fourteen year olds you
43:01
know, you know that might go whatever, But has it really sunk in
43:05
that they're in a semi final? I think they recognize that it's a pretty
43:08
big deal. They are the most cool, calm and collective group of lads.
43:13
They keep me call calm and collected, and so I think they understand,
43:16
you know, that's probably the biggest game they've played in. But also
43:19
they're ready. Yeah. Well, okay, now you're the coach, but
43:22
behind the scenes, so to speak, there must be lots of people helping
43:25
you out. So I know there's probably too many to mention, and you
43:30
don't want to leave anybody out, But tell me what goes into what else
43:35
do you need to run an under fourteen side. Apart from a coach,
43:37
yes, I mean so many people. Really, all I'm doing is keeping
43:40
the cogs turning. But the parents are so dedicated to take their you know,
43:45
lads to all parts of the country to play hockey. We couldn't do
43:49
it without them. We have lots of different coaches. We have a really
43:52
good junior leader program within Optimists where the older juniors come down and help coach.
43:59
The lads really respond well to that because it's a peer almost rather than
44:02
a coach, you know, umpires that give up their time, you know,
44:07
for nothing. And like I said, we've got seven players in the
44:10
squad who have got hockey parents and it's great to have their expertise. I
44:14
did notice that over the years, and I've been reading out these results and
44:19
it might happen later on in the show actually that some of the names do
44:22
come around again, you think it must be as dead. But just on
44:27
that you've hit on that point about umpires for the semi final. Do you
44:30
have to have independent umpires? We don't. Is club the club. So
44:35
what we decided to do as a club is a points level one umpires who
44:42
umpire lots of different standards, not just juniors, so yeah, I'm they'll
44:46
be great. Yeah, good right, Okay, Now before we wind up,
44:52
is there anything else you want to say or any thank you? It's
44:55
always a tough one, this one, but now's your chance to mention any
45:00
that you really really want to, anyone that's helped you. Yeah. I
45:04
mean, I'd like to thank the lads really, because they've made it an
45:07
absolute privilege. It's not a difficult job because they do such a good job.
45:12
They're such a dedicated, committed group of lads and they make it thoroughly
45:15
enjoyable. So the credit goes to them. So you say you've been with
45:17
these boys as they've grown up. They've moved on to every year, so
45:22
it's two yearly. So I started with them when they came into under twelve,
45:24
so I've had them. This is my fourth season being around them.
45:29
And will they stay together for next year? At under fourteenth to fifteen sixteen
45:35
six years? That always tends to pieter off a little bit in all clubs
45:37
because they're playing lots of men's hockey. But this group I think will be
45:42
keen to carry on as a group of juniors as well. So we'll be
45:45
entering under sixteen leagues next year. Okay, so right now before we go,
45:47
last little thing, tell us when and where the game is and when
45:51
people have got to be there on time beyond hopefully for an early goal.
45:54
So the game is this Sunday at Three Hills and pushed back as a mid
45:58
day right arilliant Adrianne, thank you so much for coming in. I am
46:02
determined to be down there. I'm really really looking forward to this one.
46:06
And so I want to wish you and all the underfowart is all the best.
46:08
And I hope that lots of hockey people are out there listening to this
46:14
and you just get along there. Just if you've never watched hockey before,
46:17
just go down. You've never been to the three years before, just go
46:21
down. Have a look. This is on our doorstep. It's a national
46:23
competition. So Adrianne, thank you so much. Thank you crusaders there and
46:43
street life and well, what an interesting interview that was with Adrianne. It's
46:50
so good that you know a local team can get to a semi final of
46:53
a national cup. And now it's time for a roundup of the scores from
46:58
the folks and optimists. It was feully a better week overall than last week.
47:01
The stats read they played twelve, they won eight, they lost three,
47:06
It drew one, goals scored four was thirty four and the goals against
47:10
was twenty six. Now, if you remember last week the goals four and
47:15
against was both twenty six in fact, so this week the goals against stays
47:19
the same, but the club scored eight more goals. Okay, here we
47:22
go. The men's first eleven drew three all with Maidstone, the goals coming
47:27
from Josh Clifford, Phil if Youurrailed and Harvey Little. The Seconds beat Old
47:31
Williamsonians four to one thanks to goals from Lorcan Doyle who scored twice, plus
47:36
one apiece from Nick Hopkins and Matt Mannering. The Thirds lost five to two
47:39
to Mardin Russetts. The fourteen beat Grasham and welcome five nil goal shared between
47:45
Jack Dixon, Jack Timmins, Ben Williams, A. J. Vigo and
47:50
Joe Thresher. The fifteen lost five to one to burn ash and the sixteen
47:53
beat a New York Beccahamians four to three thanks to a hat trick from Steve
47:58
row and one from Harry row Hang and I recognize these names, Steve Rote
48:04
and Harry Rowe, Adrian, is there anything to do with you? Yes,
48:07
husband and son really even his pusand yet and Harry is my son.
48:09
They've been playing sixes for the whole season. Yeah. Oh that's awesome.
48:15
Yeah, brilliant. And do you know what, there's something that I always
48:17
wanted to do. I mean, I played football to a ripe old age
48:21
and my lad was quite a good football He played in the in Victor under
48:23
eighteens, but we never played like senior football together and I feel like it's
48:28
one of my biggest regrets. So your son, Harry, is he actually
48:32
in your your squad? He is? Yet he's on the forward line in
48:35
the squad for Sunday yep? Is he? Oh? Is he one of
48:37
the first names on the on the team shoot or is he one of the
48:40
last ones? He will be on the start he will be on the start
48:44
on line yeah, Oka, oh, that's brilliant. And we have noticed
48:47
in the past actually that, as you said in your interview, that is
48:52
kind of a family thing, isn't it. Some some family names have been
48:55
linked with the hockey club for years, haven't they. Yeah, they absolutely
48:58
have and it's so nice to generations playing together. It's fantastic. It's a
49:01
very family orientated club. Brilliant. Okay, thanks Adrian for that little update.
49:06
There we go, fresh from the horse's mouth so to speak. Right,
49:09
So we got the seventh team now they beat another Beckahamian side by three
49:14
goals to one thanks to two goals from Elliott Wilson and one from Adam Nordine.
49:20
The Ladies first team beat Oxford four three in an exciting encounter where it
49:23
was three or with fifteen minutes to play. Cleo Steer scored the winner after
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some great interpassing and they come out winners there, so well done to them.
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The second lost four one to Modern Russett's, the third to beat Tunbridge
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Wells two to one, both goals scored by Empulling, and the fourteen beat
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New Beckahamian's three nil, Tessa Hugen getting one and Daniel bambam Minard scored the
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other two. And finally the fifth team came bouncing back after their heavy defeat
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last week to beat Old Williamsonians by two goals to nil, goals coming from
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Janet Fuller and Vicki Jones. So okay, Adrian before you go. Now,
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so just how big is this game on Sunday to the club and to
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the area hopefully to the area. And now we've given it enough publicity.
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Yeah, it's a brilliant, you know, example of how hockey is really
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developing, particularly in this area. And the club is huge. You know,
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it's excellent for juniors to get through this far in the national competition.
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Fantastic. Okay, Adrian, thank you so much once again. And I'll
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be there on Saturday Sunday at twelve o'clock. Well, I'll better get there
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early inue cases, another early goal. Yeah, okay. It's a bit
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of music now from these dreams, these dreams there from heart Now. In
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recent weeks, I've been playing sixties music early team with the storyline on the
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TV series Heartbeat. Well, this week I'm gonna give it a break from
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Heartbeat and turn my attentions to the hospital drama The Royal. Now. This
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show is a bit of a spin off from Heartbeat, with several characters for
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the first few episodes popping up in both shows. It's also set in the
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sixties, and it follows the lives of the staff at the fictional Saint Aidan's
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Royal Free Hospital serving the town of Elsin By, which of course doesn't exist.
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Now, the first song to hit the first song to hit you about
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this show is the theme song, and it really is aptly named and it's
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called Somebody Helped Me and it was originally sung by the Spencer Davis Group Spencer
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Davis Group for Somebody Helped Me. Now. The storyline that I watched was
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about a newly born baby found on the hospital steps. He was wrapped up
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in a scruffy old red blanket and whilst the staff were all fussing and cooing
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over the little one. This song a rag Doll by the Four Seasons was
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being played from nineteen sixty four of their four seasons and rag Doll. Now
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back to the storyline, the mother was found to be a sixteen year old
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schoolgirl who was with the support of her mother in the end, decided to
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keep the baby rather than give it up for adoption. Now changing the subject
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slightly, but still to do with hospital and operations. I had a great
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catch up with two of my Eurotunnel buddies during the week, dale Beck and
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Neil Coles, and what a pair of old crocs they are. Too.
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Dale has just come out of hospital after having a hip replacement and Neil goes
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in next month for the same operation, so they won't be stratting their stuff
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on the dance floor for a very long time. Now. There was one
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tune I was trying to find a hippy hippy shake, but I couldn't track
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it down on our playlist. So this is for you and Neil and Dale
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is hip to be square out by Huey Lewis. Huey Lewis and the news.
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They are hip to be square that especially for Dalback and Neil Coles.
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What a hippie pair they are right. We're running out last bit of sport
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now and I've really got to crack on with this. Last Sunday I was
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on the mic at the nice Work Brett Lid half marathon and twenty mile road
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race. Now, this is a very popular day on the running calendar as
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many athletes use it in a build up for a spring marathon. Seven hundred
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and six runners in total cross the finishing line. Four hundred and seventy eight
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completes in the twenty and two hundred and twenty eight compete in the half.
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Now, it was a Dan Poldrisley Day. It wasn't very nice but anyway,
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Folks and Running An Athletics Club had twenty four taking part, with many
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runners reaching a PB. Notable performances from the club came from Simon Ramsey,
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second overall in the half in a PB time of one hour eighteen five seconds,
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finishing strongly just four seconds behind the winner. Also in the half,
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Taubyn Jessen was tenth overall, coming in first in his age category, Mailvett
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sixty and also fine running from Simon Coffee and Kate Lansfield. In the twenty
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first runner home for the club was Darren Crue in a PB time of two
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hours sixteen forty eight seconds. Other pbs came from Darren's partner Jody Jody Stokes,
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running in two hours forty eight forty four. Louisa Eid run her first
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ever twenty miler in two hours fifty four to thirty four, Ian Vousden's PB
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was just under three hours two fifty nine two and Dominic Shepherd's PB was three
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hours twenty two to twenty three seconds. Alton Richardson, Debbie Palmerter and Lisa
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Smith are also to be congratulated on running their first ever twenty South Kent Harriers
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had ten runners in the half. Dan Carter finished in one hour twenty seven
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thirty six, Andy Gardner one hour forty four to twenty six, Rebecca Young
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one forty four forty seven which was a PB. Rebecca Edwards was carrying a
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knee injury, but she finished successfully thanks to help from Michelle Barnes. In
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the twenty Sarah Roan and Morton ran two hours fifty one oh seven, Marie
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Watson run two fifty nine to fifty eight, Martin Smith run three hours twenty
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thirty one a Pebe time. Melanroyd Powell three hours thirty six forty one running
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for back to Runners in Hive for raising money for a junior diabetes charity.
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Elis Stuart and Henry Cornbill, training for London, came in together in three
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hours twenty eight seventeen and I hope to have them in the radio station just
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before the marathon itself. Now, the day itself was cloudy, drizzly and
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wet, but that might have helped the runners. No wind and cool temperatures.
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Now, you know I've said in the past sometimes a song jumps into
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your head. Well it happened to me. On Sunday during the run,
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my partner Sue was asked by race director Mark Brocklehurst, who did an excellent
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job, by the way, if she could help timer Ian in the van
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to cool out runners. Details for those who decided to drop down from twenty
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to the half. It's a big thing to do, actually, you know,
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you just turn up and change your mind. Then it's still all got
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to be recorded now. At the time, it was raining hard and the
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van was the best place to do it. To keep try well. After
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about half an hour, I thought to myself, hang on where Sue.
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I looked over at the van and this song immediately popped into my head as
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I couldn't see her or Ian as the van was all steamed up. So
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steamy winders a Tina Turner and I'll say goodbye to you. I'll see you
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at the Free Hills. Make sure you are there on Sunday twelve. Look,
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and we're playing out now with steamy windows. I was thinking my the
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night we was out on the battle